You can't tell from this, but the ocean scrolls across the screen to make it look super cool and parallaxed. This is just a shot of what is essentially the paper prototype for the Gull and Guide storybook . I've been kind of slow this week , which is probably about 2/5ths because my ankle hurts so it's hard to get to campus, and 3/5ths because i have no idea how to make an ocean look compelling in an animated environment without single-handedly drawing every frame (which
I'm NOT going to do).
Did you know that the opening storm scene in the Little Mermaid took a team of special effects artists over a year to create? Turns out waves and rain are a pretty challenging thing to replicate convincingly. Seeing as I am only one person and I'm trying to finish this app before the end of the month, I decided I need to start looking for a new strategy to get my wave-game on.
I've been messing around with a few different techniques to create the *illusion* of movement without selling my soul for a dose of carpel tunnel. Really to get technical any animation or film is only depicting the *illusion* of movement on a screen anyways by playing a reel of pictures faster than the human eye can recognize individually. So I'm not being lazy, it's just fact.
Here are a few of my early wave attempts so that I at least have something to show for this week. Sorry if it makes no sense to you my head doesn't translate well on paper sometimes.
I'm NOT going to do).
Did you know that the opening storm scene in the Little Mermaid took a team of special effects artists over a year to create? Turns out waves and rain are a pretty challenging thing to replicate convincingly. Seeing as I am only one person and I'm trying to finish this app before the end of the month, I decided I need to start looking for a new strategy to get my wave-game on.
I've been messing around with a few different techniques to create the *illusion* of movement without selling my soul for a dose of carpel tunnel. Really to get technical any animation or film is only depicting the *illusion* of movement on a screen anyways by playing a reel of pictures faster than the human eye can recognize individually. So I'm not being lazy, it's just fact.
Here are a few of my early wave attempts so that I at least have something to show for this week. Sorry if it makes no sense to you my head doesn't translate well on paper sometimes.